Senator John Cornyn, one of the most powerful Republicans in our nation's capital, recently tweeted that legal immigration should be "encouraged" while illegal immigration should be "deterred."
That attitude — which is shared by many Republican leaders — is the reason that once-reliably red states like Texas, Arizona, and Georgia could go blue today.
Decades of mass legal immigration, averaging about 1 million people each year during the 21st century, have brought in tens of millions of new voters. These naturalized Americans are largely patriotic, hardworking, and law-abiding. They're generally good people. But they're also quite liberal — which is why they overwhelmingly identify and vote as Democrats.
By welcoming in tens of millions of left-leaning future voters, GOP politicians are signing their own electoral death warrants. If the GOP wants to remain the party of limited government and still win elections, it has no choice but to scale back legal immigration.
